As religion loses its fervor and becomes stereotyped, the worshiper lives and moves on a level where faith is too weak and too diffuse to lead to any inner awakening. Instead of appealing to the inmost self, religion that has thus grown tired is content to stir up the unconscious emotions of the exterior self. In this case there is no real inner awakening, and the reassurance conceived in ritual worship is no longer spiritual, personal, and free.
